Amazing Beauty with Balance

Every woman around the world wants to look beautiful both physically and heart. They want to look beautiful with their own way. Some women believe that they will look beautiful because of their ability or achievement they get. They are proud to become a smart woman with high level in a company, an institution or anything else. In the other hand, some others women have opinion that a beautiful woman is a woman who always up-to-date about fashion. They think that woman must have a great taste in fashion style. They must look beautiful with flawless skin, red lips, or long hair. Some women even think that both of them is not important but the most important is kindness.

According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 7^th Edition, beauty is the quality of being pleasing the senses or mind. Beauty is an excellent thing that can attract everyone to see or enjoy it. Beauty can be a person or thing. While according to Wikipedia, beauty is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning, or satisfaction.

The adjective of beauty is beautiful. Beautiful expresses someone or something that is attractive or gorgeous. Here we do not want to discuss about the beautiful of scenery in tourism place, or the beautiful of a cat, but we are going to discuss about the beautiful of woman. Beautiful is relative, it depends on our own opinion. In Japan, beautiful woman has soft and light skin without any scars. It is different with France, beautiful is slim, graceful, and classy. In Paris, the women spent much of her time for beauty treatments. So, they think that beautiful woman is a woman who has gorgeous physical appearance.

Besides that, some people think that woman looks beautiful when they have a good intelligence, good knowledge, independent and solve their own problems, be able to create something new, different and creative, have a lot of achievements, have a good position in a company or government, and something like that.

In the other hand, there are some women who are more concerned with inner beauty. They think that being beautiful does not have to have a slender body and slim, light and flawless skin, sharp nose, beautiful eyes, or even have the same ability as men, are able to do what men do as well, have good intelligence in all things. Beautiful is not only about physical appearance. Body just makes it look more attractive and brain helps us solving problems and thinking of doing something positive for others and ourselves.

The one that can make us feel real beautiful is our good attitude. If we are nice with everyone, so everyone would be happy with us, we can make them comfort with our behavior. A beautiful woman is a woman who is able to control her behavior, always be careful if she wants to say something. Beautiful appearances would be nothing if you hurt others by your bad attitude. It would be useless if you have good intelligence but you are so selfish.

Therefore, everything must be balance. A woman should have the intelligence, able to make something useful for society and able to inspire anyone with the contribution to society. Always remember God, praying everyday, doing activities just for God. Be friendly and caring for anyone, always look fresh and bright, have a healthy body that is not easily sick, the ideal body shape, not too fat or too thin.

You can keep your beauty by doing some activities, for example always keep physical health with exercise everyday and regularly, drink water, get a healthy diet and balanced, not too much, and eating healthy food and nutritionally adequate. If we get some problems we have to stay calm and relaxed, in order to think clearly and objectively in solving problems. Then, we must be positive thinking person, optimistic in life, and always pray to God. That kinds of activity is not easy to do, but if we do that regularly, i think it would be good habits.

Everything that is too much or even lack of will not give good results. Getting something balanced is so difficult, but if we have a strong desire to do it continuously and then we will get good benefits. Although we are not Miss Universe or Miss World, we must have brain, body, and behavior. We are beautiful because of our attitude, not something we are wearing.

Exploring Practice Book

There are many ways that can be used by senior high senior teacher, especially English teacher. Every teacher has their own method and media. If teacher has creative way that is easy and enjoyable to learn English, i think student will be easy to get the skill, not only writing and reading but also speaking and listening. This is the explanation about how English teacher from 21 State Senior High School of Surabaya teach their student.

In SMAXXI (21 State Senior High School of Surabaya) most of English teacher use practice book. Perhaps some people think that this is a conventional way, but for the teacher, through the practice book they can explore something outside the book. They usually give us insight about the culture, movie, book, song, or something like that. So, we will not be bored with that kind of method.

Student  will be given some activities. Practice book is the important thing here because teacher and student will develop the material. These are the activities:

1.      Doing exercise is the main activity here because in the practice book there are many kinds of question. Those are usually about an incomplete conversation, a passage which there are question about the passage is, doing the crossword puzzle, and anything else. After that, teacher and student discuss which one is the right answer. This kind of activity can improve reading skill and vocabulary.

2.      Making a presentation which the topic appropriate with the practice book. Student make a presentation in group. Then, they present in front of the class and the others give comment, suggestion, or question. Teacher as a moderator here. It can develop students’ courage to speak in public, especially in formal conversations.

3.      Making a role play. It is like having a conversation, but there is plot. Student make a script, then they have to memorize it. Next, they have to show it in front of the class. When they perform, they can improve the conversation. They do not have to speak according to script.

4.      Writing a paragraph or an essay. The topic can be taken inside the practice book. Student can see the example too. If they are still confused what will they write, they can go to library to look for something inspire.

5.      Teacher gives us motivation by telling their experience. Then they give us advice what we must do or we should not do. After we do the exercise and discuss it, teacher sometime give us more information about what the British or American culture, how they use the right idiom or vocabulary in the right place, condition, and time, and many more information.

6.      Listening skill is the most difficult part to learn because if we do not know what they say, of course we do not know what they mean. Many students have problem with it. In practice book there is listening section, so they can get the listening material in listening laboratory. Besides that, they can improve it by listening their teacher or speaking with friend.

That is all about what we can get when we study English in 21 State Senior High School of Surabaya. Although they use the practice book, they can make it more interesting, enjoyable, and easy to learn, they can develop it into another form.